Post by DPost by Cindy HamiltonPost by Leonard BlaisdellPost by D? You mean the scamdemic? I had corona 2 times or so, and it was very
pleasant. Far more pleasant than a regular cold.
In sweden, in my age group, more people died driving a car than of corona.
It was just pure nonsense.
D! You have to _believe_! My SIL got four shots and has had covid three
times since.
A pleasant effect of the vaccine is that you get a milder case of COVID.
Your SIL survived all three cases where she might have died without the
vaccine. We'll never know, of course. We can't visit the universe
where she refused the vaccine.
Incorrect Cindy. Many, if not most, got worse symptoms from the vaccine,
than corona. Then they got corona anyway. This is scientifically proven.
Also your hypothesis is not testable, so it is nonsense.
Post by Cindy HamiltonPost by Leonard BlaisdellIt benefits their evolution. I
still think the "common cold" was a monster at first.
I'm impressed by your credentials as a virologist.
Not necessary. Common sense is enough, and you are not impressing me in
that department.
Despite her "intelligence" which she likes to tout, she is simply
"intellectually lazy"....
Just saw this:
Sweden Avoided Covid Lockdowns, and Now Reaps the Benefits
It was not Sweden that engaged in a reckless, unprecedented experiment,
but the rest of the world.
August 30, 2023
https://www.cato.org/commentary/sweden-avoided-covid-lockdowns-now-reaps-benefits
"It was an experiment scrutinized and debated by the whole world. While
many countries locked down during the pandemic, shutting down workplaces
and restaurants, my home country of Sweden stubbornly stayed open. There
were no orders to remain at home or shelter in place. Schools, offices,
factories, restaurants, libraries, shopping centers, gyms, and
hairdressers did not close. There were no mask mandates...
There were some restrictions, but, mostly, the Swedish government just
recommended that people engage in social distancing, work remotely, and
stay indoors if they felt sick; it did not force anyone to follow this
advice. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven declared that we should meet the
crisis with common sense and individual responsibility, not government
control...
Around the world, this was seen as a reckless gamble with human lives.
The New York Times described Sweden as a “pariah state” and a
“cautionary tale.” President Trump claimed that “Sweden is paying
heavily for its decision not to lockdown” and that “Sweden is suffering
very, very badly.”...
Considering the amount of attention paid to Sweden during the pandemic,
it is strange that there has been so little follow-up. How did the
Swedish experiment turn out?
I investigate this in a new study for the Cato Institute: “Sweden during
the Pandemic: Pariah or Paragon?”
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/sweden-during-pandemic
The results do not flatter governments that rushed into lockdowns...
For instance, the global economy was 2.9 percent smaller after 2021 than
it had been projected to be by pre-pandemic forecasts; the euro zone was
2.1 percent smaller; and the U.S. economy was 1.2 percent smaller.
Meanwhile, the Swedish economy was 0.4 percent larger, even though the
Swedish government spent less on mitigating the economic effects of the
pandemic than other governments did.,,
Of more significance for the future is the learning loss in countries
where children were not allowed to go to school. For example, the U.S.
Department of Education concluded that half of America’s students began
2023 a full year behind grade level in at least one subject. In sharp
contrast, Swedish elementary schoolers suffered no learning loss during
the pandemic, according to a study in the International Journal of
Educational Research...
Covid-era Sweden also seems to have done better than other rich
countries on indicators such as suicide and domestic abuse, although the
data necessary to make comparisons are difficult to find...
The Swedish model’s detractors would say that all these gains came at a
terrible price: the willful sacrifice of health and lives. This is where
the data provide the most surprising conclusion: Sweden was an outlier
in terms of policy but not in terms of mortality...
By June 14, 2023, Sweden had suffered 2,322 Covid-19 deaths per million
people, more than our Scandinavian neighbors, but fewer than southern
Europe and the United States (3,332). The comparison of Covid-19 deaths
is not simple, since countries have different definitions and some
countries did not count deaths outside hospitals. But Swedish
authorities counted everyone who died and had tested positive for the
virus as a Covid-19 death, even if the cause of death was a heart
attack...
In effect, Sweden reported many who died with Covid-19, not of Covid-19
— which means that the disparity between its mortality rate and those in
southern Europe and the U.S. is even more pronounced than it appears...
When you look at “excess deaths” — defined as the number of deaths
compared with a previous period or an expected value — during the three
pandemic years, 2020–22, compared with the previous three years,
Sweden’s excess-death rate during the pandemic was 4.4 percent higher.
Compared with the data other countries have provided, this is less than
half of the average European level of 11.1 percent, and, remarkably, it
is the lowest excess-mortality rate of all European countries...
There are different ways of adjusting for age and previous trends, and
with some methods, Denmark beats Sweden to first place, but all methods
show that Sweden had one of the lowest excess-death rates of any country
during the pandemic. America’s excess-death rate was more than twice as
high...
This is a remarkable finding. Swedes turn out to have adapted their
behaviors to the pandemic, just as others did, but in a voluntary way,
which gave us opportunities to adjust for individual conditions and
needs. Individual responsibility worked...
So it was not Sweden that engaged in a reckless, unprecedented
experiment, but the rest of the world, and that experiment turned out to
be a disaster: Millions of people were deprived of their freedoms, and
children were denied schooling, without a discernible benefit to public
health..."
About the Author:
Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a writer who
focuses on globalization, human progress and intellectual history.
Norberg is the author and editor of more than 20 books, translated into
more than 30 languages. They include In Defense of Global Capitalism,
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, and Open: The Story
of Human Progress. Both latter books were named by The Economist as a
book of the year in 2016 and 2020 respectively..."
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